March 13, 2006

Naturally, I found my old ID a few minutes after I got it replaced.
Pfft. Turned out that it had an identity crisis and thought it was a
bookmark. On the plus side, that meant no one used my ID for strange
and nefarious purposes such as checking out library books.

Random Japanese sentence:

Ã§ÂŒÂ«Ã£ÂÂ¯Ã£ÂƒÂÃ£Â‚ÂºÃ£ÂƒÂŸÃ£Â‚Â’Ã¨Â¿Â½Ã£ÂÂ„Ã£ÂÂ‹Ã£ÂÂ‘Ã£ÂÂŸÃ£Â€Â‚ The cat ran after the rat.

I sorted out my checking/savings account today, using Gnucash to keep
track of what is where. I've set up the transaction to pay my rent
from now until July 2007 and have earmarked the cash for it.

PCFinancial won't let me have more than one savings account, but I'm
faking divisions with Gnucash, a personal finance program. Under
Accounts:PCFinancial Savings, I have "Earmarked" and "True savings".
Because I can set up automatic bill payments only from my checking
account, I scheduled automatic transfers between my savings account to
my checking account. This is tracked under Assets:PCFinancial
checking:Earmarked and :Actual.

I need to talk to Mark at some point to figure out how my funding is
structured so that I know what kind of budget I have and whether I can
afford to cook for people more often. =) I _hope_ the increased
funding from You-Know-Who translates into a raise in my fellowship, as
it's quite a bit more than my previous funding.